Cam's Garage

January 7, 2024 As I do on many evenings, I started scrolling through videos on YouTube. Some nights I'm looking at how-to's for garage plumbing installations and others I'm looking at ways to spend large sums of money in seemingly pointless ways. While searching I ran across a video by Doug Demuro called " What's the Dream Car Garage for $85,000. " To summarize the objective of the video, 4 individuals were trying to purchase the cars that best suited a hypothetical $85,000 budget. The full list of rules are below: All cars must have sold on Cars and Bids vehicle auction website An individual can purchase as few or as many cars as they want so long as they spend $85,000 or less The chosen vehicle(s) are yours for the foreseeable future The chosen vehicle(s) must suit your current lifestyle I thought the premise of the episode was interesting and figured that I would take a pass at it using the same rules. So without further ado, here's how I would spend ...

April 25, 2023 First and foremost, what is rallycross. As defined by Wikipedia , rallycross "is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars." Just based on the description and image above with limited context on the sport, rallycross looks like a very interesting and dirt(y) sport that realistically is questionable in terms of safety and regulations. So like most logical people, my friend (Jake) and I decided that while we did not have multi-millions to drop on a vehicle capable of doing what these beautiful specimen could, we could build something for a race day on an extreme budget. The year is 2018. COVID hadn't occurred yet, so vehicle prices were still relatively low comparatively to now (2023). At this time I was living in Huntsville, AL (truly an amazing place if you have never had the opportunity to go) for work and Jake decided he would come in for a weekend to visi...